Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Risso]

Thank fuck I don't have to rely on many of you being in my corner.

Thank fuck you don't have anything to do with any business that I'm involved with.

[Steve67]

It's just not Smith's fault.

Not his fault solely, I completely agree, but nevertheless he's been terrible.

And also needs to take his fair share of the blame.  He might at least get them motivated and less cowardly. That is absolutely down to him.  It's a house of cards situation but under no circumstances should Dean be given a pass from some of the turgid shit we see on the football pitch, his domain.

[Drummond]

Thank fuck I don't have to rely on many of you being in my corner.

Thank fuck you don't have anything to do with any business that I'm involved with.

Agreed. You'd be a shit boss.

[Legion]

Both of you be nice. Please.

[Risso]

Thank fuck I don't have to rely on many of you being in my corner.

Thank fuck you don't have anything to do with any business that I'm involved with.

Agreed. You'd be a shit boss.

I'm a brilliant boss.

[themossman]

In that smith has more influence on what happens on the pitch than any individual player, this is mostly his fault.

But I said on here mid lockdown that I fancied our players to keep themselves fit in lockdown and come back raring to go, with McGinn back as a bonus. How wrong I was. Luiz shows there is no reason the players couldn’t have come back better, fitter, more focused than before the break. The rest of them, all of them, are as bad as they’ve been at any point in the season.

[olaftab]

Palace is huge.

Is it though?

Depends if it’s Versailles or Istana Nur?

[PeterWithesShin]

Both of you pack it in.

[Risso]

11 more goals and we'll have conceded as many goals as we did last time we went down.

[Drummond]

It's always the same. Every player, coach manager, director and owner is shit and the world is ending.

The reality is that we did pretty well for a large part of the game. That we had a penalty given against us, that was questionable at best, then did for the mentality of the team on the pitch.

That's a clear area of weakness. But that's not all down to Smith.

Look at the first few pages of this thread, are you all accepting that you were wrong then? Or are you wrong now?

Smith has had teams playing good football, it takes time and he's had two pretty average squads to work with. In my view he did really well last season, and less so this. Get rid of him and we have to start all over again.

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Sleep tight all.

[wince]

You know what, if smith is sacked he will be the scapegoat. The entire recruitment and coaching staff need to go as it’s a collective clusterfuck

[hilts_coolerking]

The reality is that we did pretty well for a large part of the game. That we had a penalty given against us, that was questionable at best, then did for the mentality of the team on the pitch.

Come off it: we played well for about 25 minutes.  We had 33% possession and 1 shot on goal in the entire match.

[AsTallAsLions]

The reality is that we did pretty well for a large part of the game. That we had a penalty given against us, that was questionable at best, then did for the mentality of the team on the pitch.

Come off it: we played well for about 25 minutes.  We had 33% possession and 1 shot on goal in the entire match.

And that's being generous. It wasn't even 25 minutes.

[PeterWithesShin]

We'd just hit the post before their penalty, up to the penalty we were much the better side. After it we were shite.

[AsTallAsLions]

We'd just hit the post before their penalty, up to the penalty we were much the better side. After it we were shite.

Genuine question, do you think it was all the fault of a bad decision and we'd have continued on being the better side if not for the ref and VAR being useless?